Tag: Spanish Flu
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The Worst of History: The Spanish Flu (La Enfermedad de 1918)
The First World War stands as one of the deadliest anthropogenic events (events originating from humans) of all time, with as many as 22 million people dying globally—an average of over 10,000 deaths per day. What may have been even deadlier, however, was the 1918 influenza pandemic. With the highest estimate at 100 million deaths,…